Example sentences of "not see a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps it was also relief at not seeing a flood of overpriced Japanese owned art back on the market , or the sense that the cloud of economic recession might be lifting .
2 For instance , it is difficult not to see a connection between the prejudiced views of heads and teachers involved in ESN-M referral processes and the overrepresentation of Afro-Caribbean children in special schools ( Tomlinson , 1981 ) .
3 Mungo looked up and was relieved not to see a face at the window .
4 Sightless , she smiled thinly and inhumanly ; she who had not seen a smile with which to compare since her girlhood , nor a mirror either .
5 THERE are very few middle-aged men who have not seen a vision of youthful loveliness and longed to possess it .
6 Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof .
7 I 've not seen a lot of it actually , so far .
8 Absence of such deposits in the late 1980s has not seen a decline in Eurocurrency .
9 Now how many people have not seen a list of the
10 Ten out of 23 ( 43 per cent ) children and adolescents had not seen a dentist since their last review .
11 Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict .
12 You will not see a goal of more classical quality and execution than this one .
13 You might look around and not see a tree with any foliage on it whatever ’ .
14 A garrulous Welshman who could not see a beach without running along it .
15 The implications of this would seem to be that 1975–85 did not see a process of structural change , but simply the latest in a series of chaotic attempts by central actors to use local government as a means of achieving their ends , without any appreciation of the range of different interests reflected in its various policy networks , and which are also linked by various routes to the still disaggregated parts of the centre .
16 Although a large ship of the line , she did not see a lot of action during her service .
17 So Rediffusion engineers do not see a future for monomode fibre except for trunk lines .
18 When the Renault RSO1 1500 cc turbo-charged car failed on lap 17 of the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone , there must have been many people who did not see a future for this power-booster , particularly as it was the turbo-charger that caused the car 's withdrawal from the race .
19 Top riders Tony Rickardsson and Chris Louis are already feeling the effects of riding six or seven races every match — and Ipswich can not see an answer in sight .
20 The company said that it did not see an improvement for the second half .
21 She can not see an institution without hitting it with her handbag .
22 Following the verdict Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane , Kahane 's son and a leader of his anti-Arab Kach party , vowed that Noseir would " not see a day without fear until his very last " .
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